hide away.

"The SAT is a scam. It has been around for 50 years. It has never measured anything. And it continues to measure nothing. And the whole game is that everybody who does well on it, is so delighted by their good fortune that they don’t want to attack it. And they are the people in charge. Because of course, the way you get to be in charge is by having high test scores. So it’s this terrific kind of rolling scam that every so often, somebody sort of looks and says—well, you know, does it measure intelligence? No. Does it predict college grades? No. Does it tell you how much you learned in high school? No. Does it predict life happiness or life success in any measure? No. It’s measuring nothing."

John Katzman, founder of The Princeton Review (via loveyourchaos)

(Source: thesummerofmark, via spocck)

ellaamelia:

Story of my life

(Source: subtubitles, via dompteuseartist)

(via fl-o-ra)

7peaches:

untitled by Jen_Giese on Flickr.

(via booksandbookporn)

bakerstreetmarauder:

If someone tells you a racist, sexist or homophobic joke, don’t get mad at them. Just tell them you don’t get it. Keep telling them you don’t get it until they are forced to explain why women/minorities/homosexuals are stupid/etc.

Then just walk away.

(via observedintoexistence)

"A great poet belongs to no country."

Journal of the conversations of Lord Byron noted during a residence with his lordship at Pisa, in the years 1821 and 1822 by Thomas Medwin, 1824  + (via mythologyofblue)

(via lifeinpoetry)

moshita:

Haruko Maeda 

"…witchcraft arises from the world. It comes from the land, the people, the plants, the animals, the whole web of life. Do not let anyone tell you otherwise. Witchcraft is here in present time."

Peter Grey, Apocalyptic Witchcraft (via witchofforestgrove)

(via deepwoodsteaparty)

a conversation my little brother Devin had with someone that we know outside of facebook, in which he makes me proud.

(Source: geminthesea, via inamoratia)

(Source: skeletongarden, via glittertomb)

mineralists:

Silver, Rhodochrosite, and Acanthite
Uchucchacua Mine, Peru

"

in a middle of a room
stands a suicide
sniffing a Paper rose
smiling to a self

‘somewhere it is Spring and sometimes
people are in real:imagine
somewhere real flowers,but
I can’t imagine real flowers for if I

could,they would somehow
not Be real’
(so he smiles
smiling)’but I will not

everywhere be real to
you in a moment’
The is blond
with small hands

‘& everything is easier
than I had guessed everything would
be;even remembering the way who
looked at whom first,anyhow dancing’

(a moon swims out of a cloud
a clock strikes midnight
a finger pulls a trigger
a bird flies into a mirror)

E.E. Cummings, “in the middle of a room” (via lifeinpoetry)

"Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness."

Paint it Black by Janet Fitch (via seabois)

(via w-orry)

ameliated:

bad-dominicana:

skepticamongthefaithful:

kemetically-afrolatino:

source 1; source 2; source 3; source 4; source 5

WELP.

Stop what you are doing.

Read those.

Right now.

I’ll wait.

If you don’t want to read, I’ll explain the key bullet points, but please read them afterwords:

This is not “we didn’t protect him enough.”

This is not “the government screwed up some random detail or accidentally let his killer loose.”

The 111th Military Intelligence had a team taking pictures of his balcony during the assassination.

They brought in a Special Forces 8-Man Sniper Team from the 20th.

Memphis Police withdrew their regular protection detail from him.

A jury of 12 people, six black and six white, found the United States Government guilty of conspiracy to commit murder.

YOUR GOVERNMENT. MY GOVERNMENT. THE GOVERNMENT OF, BY, AND FOR THE PEOPLE, SHOT AND KILLED DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING. And the media never reported the case.

MLK was ASSASSINATED. By a government YOU PAY FOR.

I hate those posts where someone tries to pressure you into reblogging. I almost never ask you to reblog.

This shit is important.

Reblog this. I don’t care what kind of blog you have. I don’t care what you normally talk about.

Reblog this.

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